Stuffed Portabella Mushrooms are a delicious way of including a healthy and filling meal, fast! Portabella or Portobella are huge mushrooms, round but with flat caps. They have black gills underside and the stem is edible. The best part of Portabella mushrooms is they have a rich and meaty texture and flavour, which it retains Read more

Almi and Batat che Ambat is a spicy and tangy Mushroom and Potato Vegetable that is finger licking delicious. As a part of “Ssshhhh Secretly Cooking” for February 2018, we have been challenged to make recipes from Goa! The challenge is your partner who was to give 2 secret ingredients. You are to cook from the state Read more

Syrniki is deliciously fried quark pancakes served warm with garnishing. The garnishes can vary from sour cream, jam, honey or applesauce. For #BreadBakers, we are making pancakes this month. Thanks to Sue I tried these Syrniki pancakes that my daughter wanted me to make. In Ukrainian, Belarusian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Serbian cuisine Syrniki or Syrnyky as Read more

Quinoa Matar Pulao also Quinoa Peas Pulao a fusion dish in which the rice in matar pulao is replaced by quinoa. My husband has totally stopped eating rice no matter what I tell him he will not listen so I try feeding him quinoa. For once, he accepted that he could eat quinoa. Therefore, I Read more

This Vegan Lebanese Chickpea Stew is a tasty and protein rich dish flavoured with jeera/cumin and za’atar a much-needed change from the regular Punjabi chana masala. The other day I stumbled upon this awesome picture of the stew and went down hook line and sinker. The recipe seemed doable and I made it once the Read more

Adai is a protein-rich instant dosa made from a mixture of Black gram, Bengal gram and Rice. A dosa is a pancake, a crepe that is popular in the Indian subcontinent. To make a dosa generally we use fermented batter, so basically, you need to plan for this kind of dosa. But some dosa can Read more

I rarely make tomato omelette I do not know why actually tomato omelettes are vegetarian, easy and cook fast and are healthy too. Yes, it is Protein-rich too. Tomato omelette is also known as Besan ka Cheela in North India. This pancake is not restricted to any particular region in India and is available in most Read more

Mushroom and Fried Raw/Green Banana sticks in a kokum sauce was the general idea around which this dish is developed. Traditional Goan Food is a facebook page of which I am a member. There is a challenge currently #TGF100K Mystery Box Challenge! where you have to make a dish with mushrooms, bananas, kokum or tamarind, green Read more

Egg frittata recipe is a delicious egg recipe for brunch or a quick weeknight dinner. For a normal household also Egg frittata is a great recipe especially since the filling can be leftovers anything from veggies, potatoes, rice. I have also used one leftover chapatti minced in the mixer. Seafood, chicken, cheeses also taste good. Read more